Verizon head Lowell McAdam's turn at the Goldman Sachs Communacopia conference saw him make the unusual claim that Windows Phone would pass the BlackBerry. Echoing AT&T's call for a third major smartphone platform, he didn't see RIM as being the one to fill that role. The larger struggle would shake itself out in about a year, and RIM's current position wouldn't guarantee that it would be third after the battle.
